Mark Noce Stories
Notes on Mark's latest writing endeavors, alongside other creative authors in the community.
February 13, 2019
The other weekend I was down in sunny San Luis Obispo (albeit it was a bit rainy that day). I sit on the English Department Advisory Board for the university of Cal Poly, and as almuni from Cal Poly…
Read more of “Speed Networking with College Students”February 4, 2019
So Google’s social media experiment will be ending in a couple months, and I was curious how my fellow bloggers are approaching this deadline. Do you care? Does it matter? My only real concern is if…
Read more of “The Demise of Google+”January 25, 2019
Hey everybody! I'll be over at Shelley Workinger's blog today, where I've posted about the historical culinary backround in my novels. You heard that right...it's all about what people ate and drank…
Read more of “Guest Post Today”January 14, 2019
You’re probably wondering right now what the heck a gimlet is? Well, if you’ve been reading lots of old noir detective novels, you probably already know. I read enough Chandler books to take his…
Read more of “New Year’s Resolutions & the Gimlet”January 7, 2019
As I continue to read about many of my favorite authors, I’m intrigued by the continual battles with doubt they each wrestled with during their entire lives. A few that come to mind include Herman…
Read more of “Doubt in Writing”December 21, 2018
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to you all! I hope you’re all having a wonderful holiday season. Between all the shopping, people-seeing, and madness that can creep up, I hope that you have a…
Read more of “Happy Holidays!”December 13, 2018
I totally spaced on providing an update on my NaNoWriMo adventures from last month! It’s probably because I got so engrossed in writing, that I forgot the month was over. Seriously. I must have…
Read more of “NaNoWriMo Update”December 6, 2018
My novel, Between Two Fires , has been on the Amazon bestseller list for medieval fiction for the last few weeks! Despite oscillating a bit in the rankings, it continues to keep rising. I’m…
Read more of “My Book is on the Bestseller List!”November 8, 2018
It’s that time of year again! NaNoWriMo. I don’t usually make it official (nor do I intend to), but I often try and get some extra writing done on the side in an effort to get into the spirit of…
Read more of “NaNoWriMo”October 31, 2018
Happy Halloween! It’s my favorite time of the year once more, and my favorite holiday no less. There’s just something magical about Halloween night that defies explanation. The kids are dressed up…
Read more of “Happy Halloween!”
